# Is the Amazon AWS outage affecting you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 7, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663 "2021-12-07T20:53:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/21 "2021-12-07T21:53:38Z")
Same, no confirmation. However, being able to order at all is better than earlier today. My Prime credit card is missing from my Amazon wallet (though they still offer me an option to pay with my points from that card). I tried using customer service chat, but first there was an error message, then chat only (no prompts), and now “getting an associate” but nothing has happened for 15 minutes. I’m delighted that I wasn’t A. Administering a final on Canvas; B. Requiring a video assignment today. Also delighted I’m C. A willful Luddite in relation to the Internet of Things. I read that Ring has been out as well, so look out for porch pirates. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/22 "2021-12-07T21:56:49Z")
Same problem with my Echo. After getting pissy with Alexa, I rebooted before giving up and listening in my browser instead. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/23 "2021-12-07T22:10:21Z")
Canvas now gives me “504 Gateway Time-out,” so I won’t be posting any make-up assignments or course grades. (We are required to use Canvas, though some faculty appear to duplicate everything in Teams.) ETA: > Canvas slowness > > Since 9:42am today (Dec. 7), Canvas and Panopto have been running slowly. Canvas and Panopto are working with their service providers to restore full service. > > This is a message from **University of Bupkis** ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/24 "2021-12-07T22:15:33Z")
That should read “two hours ago”, although it’s going on three, now. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/25 "2021-12-07T22:17:04Z")
Only tomorrow will answer the question, “Was my order of Vitamin E with Mixed Tocopherals truly received and filled?” ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/26 "2021-12-07T22:17:17Z")
> [@susan](#): > > ``` > * * * > > ``` On a lark I just tried logging in my canvas account and it let me in but since I don’t have any classes in there there’s nothing for me to play around with. I don’t know how it would behave if I did. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/27 "2021-12-07T22:18:04Z")
🙂 Don’t antagonize Canvas by poking it! It’s a vicious little beast. ETA: Now I can access my dashboard but not my course. Glad I graded those final assignments yesterday! ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/28 "2021-12-07T22:21:09Z")
My pestering has run its course. I’ll leave those with actual business with Canvas to play with it while I gleefully use Google, unencumbered by technical glitches. Now if I can just get my students to do some work. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/29 "2021-12-07T22:25:20Z")
Now is the time when all of your students will claim to be working via some Amazon-related product that is not operating. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/30 "2021-12-07T22:26:36Z")
At least it’s a novel excuse. Rather than claiming “the dog ate my homework”, they could claim “the cloud ate my homework”. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/31 "2021-12-07T22:40:00Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > HALexa won’t do anything for me right now. It will neither open the pod bay doors nor turn on my lights. It does know what the time is, and the weather forecast. In a big internet outage it seems crazy to me that you could lose the control over your own house lights. Wow. I mean, I can see a home control-system being connected to the internet for updates and messages/commands from householders who are not currently at home, but _everything_ shouldn’t be over the internet: why would you (e.g.) send an on/off signal to your desk lamp through the internet? They should change _The **Internet** of Things_ to _The **Intranet** of Things_ before it’s too late. > [@DesertDog](#): > > I asked Echo to turn on a light and got the response, “I am having trouble with the manufacturer right now. A report has been sent,” but no light. _“I am having trouble with the manufacturer right now. A report has been sent,”_ “The Machine Stops” * * * ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/32 "2021-12-07T22:40:08Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > Canvas LMS is either completely down or loading exceedingly slowly for both students and instructors. My middle school was doing something that doesn’t use Canvas today (district benchmark testing), but instead, the entire internet went down when our web content filtering provider went down. We got that back a few hours later, but Canvas was still slow AF. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/33 "2021-12-07T22:46:15Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > why would you (e.g.) send an on/off signal to your desk lamp through the internet? It might be just voice control that goes offline when it loses contact with the mothership. I did not check whether the Alexa app could still control my lights by pushing buttons on the app, and it has just come back online so too late to check. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/34 "2021-12-07T22:57:47Z")
Hooray! By virtue of constant refreshing and being part of the problem rather than the solution, I was eventually able to open my Gradebook, take screen shots of the grid, and annotate it for data appearing on-screen but not in the PDF. Now at least I know who I need to email about late work. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/35 "2021-12-07T23:00:20Z")
> [@susan](#): > > part of the problem rather than the solution I just remembered that when I lost my glasses yesterday evening, I asked Alexa to turn various lights on and off repeatedly over the course of several minutes. Was I the unwitting denial-of-service attack that precipitated all this? ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/36 "2021-12-07T23:05:43Z")
I couldn’t look up something on imdb. I am in IT and get notifications of major issues. There was a large number of applications that were affected, none of them are ones I use. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/37 "2021-12-07T23:06:59Z")
You’re a monster. We just got a message relayed from IT that Canvas is having “performance issues.” I did not write back, “It’s okay, honey, it happens to every mainframe sometimes.” ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/38 "2021-12-07T23:16:34Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > Canvas LMS is either completely down or loading exceedingly slowly for both students and instructors. > > And it’s finals week for most term-system colleges. > > But I don’t have any of my classes in Canvas! HAHAHAHA! Yo, all my colleagues who thought I was a troglodyte for using Google Classroom, who’s laughing now?! I’m not laughing. We use canvas for all our classes and my finals for hybrid classes are on canvas. Fortunately, my final started at 8:00 AM so I didn’t even know there was an issue until about 3 or more hours ago when I was trying to do some grading. It’s back now for me. Something like this happened to me a year ago and I had my tests on respondus lockdown. What a clusterfuck. I don’t use respondus anymore and write my own giant pool of test questions in certain ways so that I don’t have to worry about cheating. Plus, I use the formula feature to do math word problems. ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/39 "2021-12-07T23:23:11Z")
Will you guys stop requesting lights go on and off? The lights in my house are going crazy! (Not really, but I always wanted to say that.) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663/40 "2021-12-07T23:31:25Z")
OH! So THAT’S what’s been going on! Note to self: always come to the Dope first. Alexa ceased controlling my smart plugs at about 11 am today (CST). Everything just started working again a little while ago. We really are all in this leaky boat together, aren’t we? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-amazon-aws-outage-affecting-you/955663.md?page=3)